Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Leibenath

Since 2022: Chair of the Doctoral Committee

Since 2021: Elected member of the faculty council

2022 - 2024: Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning

Appointment committees:

• 2023 - 2024: Open space planning, University of Kassel (Chair of the appointment committee)
• 2023 - 2024 Environmental Governance, TU Berlin (deputy member)

Since 2020
Professor and Head of the Department of Landscape Planning and Communication at the University of Kassel

2017-2019
Private lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of Landscape Planning and Landscape Development

2015
Awarded the teaching qualification (habilitation) for the subject of landscape development by the Faculty VI - Planning Building Environment of the Technical University of Berlin

2000-2020
Research associate and Project Leader at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden

2000-2014
Lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden

2000
Doctorate at the Institute for Landscape Development at the Technical University of Berlin

1997-1999
Doctoral student at the Technical University of Berlin with a doctoral scholarship from the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)

1994-1996
Worked as a landscape planner in private planning offices

1988-1994
Studied landscape conservation at the Technical University of Munich/Weihenstephan with a 2-semester guest study program at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

1987-1988
Military service

1985-1987
Completed training as a gardener in the Department of Horticulture and Landscaping

ORCiD-ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1384-1285

• Co-founder and one of two spokespersons of the Landscape Research Working Group
• Elected member of the State Working Group (LAG) Hesse/ Rhineland-Palatinate/ Saarland of the Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL)
• Landscape Research Group (LRG)
• Alumni Club Landscape TU Munich
• Federal Association for Professional Nature Conservation (BBN), Landscape Planning Working Group
• Network 'Real-world laboratories of sustainability'

Complete list of publications on Google Scholar

Nature conservation in times of socio-ecological transformation: Driving force or driven party?
Video recording of a lecture and a panel discussion at the ANL Bayern event "Climate Landscape Energy: What can nature conservation contribute to change?"; recorded at the Literaturhaus München on 10.10.2023

Kassel Climate Protection Council: Acceptance, communication, participation and education
(together with Dr. Sabine Säck-da Silva); podcast by Scientists for Future Kassel; recorded on 07.05.2022